Play Chthonics: Contemporary Canadian Readings presents
poets Margaret Christakos and Nathalie Stephens
September 24, 2008
Green College Coach House
Doors open 7pm
Reading begins at 7:30
Cash Bar
Margaret Christakos is the author of six books and a novel, including Sooner (Coach House, 2005, nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Excessive Love Prostheses (Coach House, 2002, winner of the ReLit Award), and Charisma (Pedlar, 2000, shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award). A new collection of poetry, What Stirs is forthcoming from Coach House this year. Christakos was Canada Council Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor on 2004-2005. She lives in Toronto where she has taught Creative Writing at the Ontario College of Art and Design (York University), with Writers in Electronic Residence, and at the University of Toronto.
Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. Recent works include The Sorrow and the Fast of It (2007), Paper City (2003), Je Nathanaël (2003 / 2006), L'Injure (2004), and the imminent essay of correspondence, Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book), (2009). Translated into Basque and Slovene, with book-length translations in Bulgarian, Stephens has herself translated Édouard Glissant, Catherine Mavrikakis, and Gail Scott. Of late, she has been studying rooftops in
Chicago.
Play Chthonics is a reading series that showcases innovative Canadian poetry, narrative, and cross-genre experimental writing. It is designed to foreground creative, interdisciplinary conversations between students and faculty of multiple departments, while bridging current gaps between UBC and the wider community of writers, theorists, and the general public in Vancouver. We host joint readings that encourage conversations between writers and audience members at a moderated discussion following each reading. Play Chthonics pairs writers whose work speaks to one another in order to promote lively discussion about poetics, translation, media, identity, environment, globalization, textuality, performance, narrativity, and sound. The series is very grateful for funding and support from Green College, The Canada Council, Canadian Studies at UBC and the UBC English Department.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Aaron Kunin
Late Breaking News!
Play Chthonics Reading Series hosts poet Aaron Kunin * this week! *
When: Thursday April 10, 8 PM
Where: Spartacus Books, 319 West Hastings, 2nd floor
Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of Folding Ruler Star (Fence Books, 2005), a collection of small poems about shame. The Mandarin, a novel, is forthcoming in April. He lives in California and is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College.
Kunin will also give a talk April 10 at UBC: Buchanan Tower, Room 599, 3:30
Jacqueline Waters writes of Folding Ruler Star:
“With alarmed intelligence, Folding Ruler Star exposes the violence of an expectant look and synthesizes the organic and the robotic, then unzips them just as machines unzip/concrete dividers/on the highway.”
You can read some of his poems here:
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.1/sampler.html
You can download some work here:
http://www.ubu.com/ubu/kunin_mauberley.html
You can read a review of Folding Ruler Star here:
http://jacketmagazine.com/28/gordon-r-kunin.html
You can read an interview on the “Here Comes Everybody” blog here:
http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2004/10/aaron-kunin-is-poet-critic-and.html
Play Chthonics Reading Series hosts poet Aaron Kunin * this week! *
When: Thursday April 10, 8 PM
Where: Spartacus Books, 319 West Hastings, 2nd floor
Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of Folding Ruler Star (Fence Books, 2005), a collection of small poems about shame. The Mandarin, a novel, is forthcoming in April. He lives in California and is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College.
Kunin will also give a talk April 10 at UBC: Buchanan Tower, Room 599, 3:30
Jacqueline Waters writes of Folding Ruler Star:
“With alarmed intelligence, Folding Ruler Star exposes the violence of an expectant look and synthesizes the organic and the robotic, then unzips them just as machines unzip/concrete dividers/on the highway.”
You can read some of his poems here:
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.1/sampler.html
You can download some work here:
http://www.ubu.com/ubu/kunin_mauberley.html
You can read a review of Folding Ruler Star here:
http://jacketmagazine.com/28/gordon-r-kunin.html
You can read an interview on the “Here Comes Everybody” blog here:
http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2004/10/aaron-kunin-is-poet-critic-and.html
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Souvankham Thammavongsa and Garry Gottfriedson
For the final reading in our 2007-2008 series, Play Chthonics Reading Series will host writers Souvankham Thammavongsa and Garry Gottfriedson. Please join us!
When: March 18, 2008 at 7:30 PM.
Cash bar at 7:00 PM.
Where: Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC.
Map: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=412
Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in 1978, in Nong Khai, Thailand. She is the author of Small Arguments (Pedlar Press 2003); the poems in Small Arguments were first self published over a series of handmade chapbooks. Her work has garnered praise for its "quiet, beautiful, jeweler's-eye lyrics" and has won the national Relit prize for poetry. Her chapbook Residual (greenboathouse 2006) and book Found (Pedlar Press 2007) follow this award-winning debut. Thammavongsa has presented her poems at the Emily Carr Institute, Mercer Union, and Harbor Front's Premiere Dance Theatre.
Garry Gottfriedson, a member of the Secwepemc First Nation, lives in Kamloops, B.C. He is a self-employed rancher with a Masters degree in Education from Simon Fraser University. His published works include Cowboy and Indian Heritage Poems (Ronsdale Press 2006), In Honor of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival (Theytus Books 1994), 100 Years of Contact (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society 1990), Glass Tepee (Thistledown Press 2002), which was nominated for a First People's Publishing Award in 2004, and Painted Pony (Partners in Publishing 2005), his first children's story. He has read from his work across North America and Europe, and in Taiwan.
Play Chthonics reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations between writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver. The series is based in the English Department at UBC.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Green College, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, and the Department of English at UBC.
When: March 18, 2008 at 7:30 PM.
Cash bar at 7:00 PM.
Where: Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC.
Map: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=412
Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in 1978, in Nong Khai, Thailand. She is the author of Small Arguments (Pedlar Press 2003); the poems in Small Arguments were first self published over a series of handmade chapbooks. Her work has garnered praise for its "quiet, beautiful, jeweler's-eye lyrics" and has won the national Relit prize for poetry. Her chapbook Residual (greenboathouse 2006) and book Found (Pedlar Press 2007) follow this award-winning debut. Thammavongsa has presented her poems at the Emily Carr Institute, Mercer Union, and Harbor Front's Premiere Dance Theatre.
Garry Gottfriedson, a member of the Secwepemc First Nation, lives in Kamloops, B.C. He is a self-employed rancher with a Masters degree in Education from Simon Fraser University. His published works include Cowboy and Indian Heritage Poems (Ronsdale Press 2006), In Honor of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival (Theytus Books 1994), 100 Years of Contact (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society 1990), Glass Tepee (Thistledown Press 2002), which was nominated for a First People's Publishing Award in 2004, and Painted Pony (Partners in Publishing 2005), his first children's story. He has read from his work across North America and Europe, and in Taiwan.
Play Chthonics reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations between writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver. The series is based in the English Department at UBC.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Green College, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, and the Department of English at UBC.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Jason Christie & Ken Howe
Poets Jason Christie and Ken Howe reading!
When: February 26th, 7:30 p.m.
Cash bar open at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Thea’s Lounge
Thea Koerner House Graduate Center
6371 Crescent Road, UBC
Map: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=408
Jason Christie is the author of i ROBOT poetry by Jason Christie (EDGE 2006) and Canada Post (Snare 2006). He co-edited Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury 2006), an issue of Open Letter on the role of Small Press publishing in Canada. i ROBOT Poetry takes readers into the automated world of the appliance where sentience brings disharmony as common household items are no longer content to be slaves to the needs of human beings. Jason's work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines across North America.
Ken Howe has published two books of poetry: Household Hints for the End of Time (Brick Books 2001), which won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award, and Cruise Control: A Theogony (Harbour Publishing 2002). Originally from Alberta, he now lives in Québec city, where he works as a translator.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, and the UBC English Department for this reading.
When: February 26th, 7:30 p.m.
Cash bar open at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Thea’s Lounge
Thea Koerner House Graduate Center
6371 Crescent Road, UBC
Map: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=408
Jason Christie is the author of i ROBOT poetry by Jason Christie (EDGE 2006) and Canada Post (Snare 2006). He co-edited Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury 2006), an issue of Open Letter on the role of Small Press publishing in Canada. i ROBOT Poetry takes readers into the automated world of the appliance where sentience brings disharmony as common household items are no longer content to be slaves to the needs of human beings. Jason's work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines across North America.
Ken Howe has published two books of poetry: Household Hints for the End of Time (Brick Books 2001), which won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award, and Cruise Control: A Theogony (Harbour Publishing 2002). Originally from Alberta, he now lives in Québec city, where he works as a translator.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, and the UBC English Department for this reading.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
ANNE STONE AND DAVID CHARIANDY
Please join us! Play Chthonics Reading Series
will host writers Anne Stone and David Chariandy.
Wednesday January 23, 2008 at 7:30 PM. Cash bar.
Cecil Green Park Coach House
Green College
6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
MAP: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=421
ANNE STONE has taught creative writing at Capilano College and at Concordia University, and is an editor of Matrix Magazine. Together with Amber Dean, she is guest editor of the current special issue of West Coast Line on representations of murdered and missing women. Her latest novel, Delible (Insomniac Press 2007), tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing. This novel offers a glimpse into a sustained experience of uncertainty and, in so doing, explores how our identities exist in those traces we leave behind. She has published two previous novels: jacks (DC Books 1998) and Hush (Insomniac Press 1999).
More information about her work can be found at http://annestone.net/ and in an interview at: http://www.canadiancontent.ca/interviews/061400stone.html.
DAVID CHARIANDY is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of a novel entitled Soucouyant (Arsenal Pulp Press 2007), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in fiction, as well as several essays on Black Canadian, Anglo Caribbean, and diasporic literatures and cultures. He has co-edited two special issues of scholarly journals (The Canadian Association of American Studies, and Essays on Canadian Writing), and he is a co-founder of Commodore Books, the first and only black literary press in western Canada.
More information about his work can be found online at CBC Words at Large (http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/blog/2007/11/david_chariandy.html) and the Tyee (http://thetyee.ca/Books/2007/10/17/Soucoyant/) .
PLAY CHTHONICS reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations between writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver. The series is based in the English Department at UBC, and is in the midst of a six-reading 2007-8 season.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, Green College, the UBC Department of English, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
will host writers Anne Stone and David Chariandy.
Wednesday January 23, 2008 at 7:30 PM. Cash bar.
Cecil Green Park Coach House
Green College
6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
MAP: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=421
ANNE STONE has taught creative writing at Capilano College and at Concordia University, and is an editor of Matrix Magazine. Together with Amber Dean, she is guest editor of the current special issue of West Coast Line on representations of murdered and missing women. Her latest novel, Delible (Insomniac Press 2007), tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing. This novel offers a glimpse into a sustained experience of uncertainty and, in so doing, explores how our identities exist in those traces we leave behind. She has published two previous novels: jacks (DC Books 1998) and Hush (Insomniac Press 1999).
More information about her work can be found at http://annestone.net/ and in an interview at: http://www.canadiancontent.ca/interviews/061400stone.html.
DAVID CHARIANDY is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of a novel entitled Soucouyant (Arsenal Pulp Press 2007), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in fiction, as well as several essays on Black Canadian, Anglo Caribbean, and diasporic literatures and cultures. He has co-edited two special issues of scholarly journals (The Canadian Association of American Studies, and Essays on Canadian Writing), and he is a co-founder of Commodore Books, the first and only black literary press in western Canada.
More information about his work can be found online at CBC Words at Large (http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/blog/2007/11/david_chariandy.html) and the Tyee (http://thetyee.ca/Books/2007/10/17/Soucoyant/) .
PLAY CHTHONICS reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations between writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver. The series is based in the English Department at UBC, and is in the midst of a six-reading 2007-8 season.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, Green College, the UBC Department of English, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
JOIN US!
Play Chthonics Reading Series will host writers Lee Maracle and Wayde Compton December 3, 2007 at 7:30 PM followed by a reception and cash bar.
Coach House,
Lee Maracle is a member of the Sto:lo nation. She is the author of a number of works including Will's Garden (Theytus Books 2002), Daughters are Forever (Raincoast Books 2002), I am Woman (Press Gang 2000), Bent Box (Theytus Books 2000), Ravensong (Press Gang Publishers 1993), Sojourners and Sundogs (1991), Bobbi Lee (1975), and is co-editor of My Home as I Remember, Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture (1990) and Gatherings, Vol 1, 2, and 13. Maracle is currently Visiting Professor of Aboriginal Studies and English at the
Friday, October 5, 2007
***Eden Robinson and Fred Booker will read October 16 at UBC***
Eden Robinson is the author of Traplines (Vintage Canada 1998), Monkey Beach (Knoph Canada 2000) and, most recently, Blood Sports (McClelland & Stewart2006). Traplines was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth, and was a New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable Book of the Year. Monkey Beach was nominated for both the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize. She currently lives and works in KitamaatVillage, a small reserve on the central coast of British Columbia.
Fred Booker has been writing in Canada since 1966. His first book, a collection of short stories titled Adventures in Debt Collection, was published September 2006 by Commodore Books in Vancouver. Stories from the collection have appearedin Event, Windsor Review, Whetstone and West Coast Line and have been read onPeter Norman's show HEARSAY. He lives and writes in Burnaby.
PLACE: Thea's Lounge, Thea Koerner House Graduate Center, 6371 Crescent Road, UBC
MAP: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=408
WHEN:October 16, 2007
Reading 7:30
Cash bar 7:00
Eden Robinson is the author of Traplines (Vintage Canada 1998), Monkey Beach (Knoph Canada 2000) and, most recently, Blood Sports (McClelland & Stewart2006). Traplines was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first work of fiction in the Commonwealth, and was a New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable Book of the Year. Monkey Beach was nominated for both the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize. She currently lives and works in KitamaatVillage, a small reserve on the central coast of British Columbia.
Fred Booker has been writing in Canada since 1966. His first book, a collection of short stories titled Adventures in Debt Collection, was published September 2006 by Commodore Books in Vancouver. Stories from the collection have appearedin Event, Windsor Review, Whetstone and West Coast Line and have been read onPeter Norman's show HEARSAY. He lives and writes in Burnaby.
PLACE: Thea's Lounge, Thea Koerner House Graduate Center, 6371 Crescent Road, UBC
MAP: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=408
WHEN:October 16, 2007
Reading 7:30
Cash bar 7:00
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